At 11/8/09 10:04 PM, Proteas wrote:
At 11/8/09 09:58 PM, poxpower wrote:
Jesus most likely never existed and if he did, there is no convincing evidence of it.
I challenge you to find it.
Click.
Enjoy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth _theory
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At 11/8/09 10:27 PM, Dawnslayer wrote:
Agreed. There's a general consensus among historians
Well first off, there is no such thing as an "historian" who is just a general knower of all history.
Historians have specialties.
And only a select few ever studied the documentation of Christ.
So when you say "historians" just remember that you're NOT talking about all historians, or even most historians, but the select few who did research into that over the decades.
And what did they produce? A lot of books and not a lot of evidence.
At BEST Jesus might have existed as just some guy who may or may not have said any of the things in the bible.
More likely his existence seems to be a collage of myths, fabrications and retro-fitting.
I'm just so sick of hearing "well at least there was a Jesus". Even if that was true, it could mean ANYTHING.
That still wouldn't allow you to attribute any special quality to him as the sources who wrote about him, the BEST ones don't mention anything he's done, really.
You couldn't say he was a teacher, a leader, a magicians... anything. All you know is his name, which could be the name of any random notable Jesus from that era.
It's almost as stupid as being proud of proving there indeed was a guy named Jim Benson who was born in Alabama between 1950 and 1990.
but I think it would be pretty difficult to start a movement like Christianity if the man behind it were nothing more than urban legend.
Haha why?
Just about everything from the early texts of Judaism is bullshit, didn't stop them. And don't get me started on Norse myths. Yeah there must have been SOME guy named Thor. Like maybe he wasn't a God but like there must have been a really tall dude named Thor who like beat someone up using a hammer...yeah how else could you explain it?
Other than just admitting it's made-up? That never happens in religions!